BUENOS AIRES: Through an agreement with CONMEBOL, FOX Sports will maintain exclusive cross-platform broadcasting rights for the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Sudamerica and the Recopa Sudamericana until 2018.<\/p>\n
The three major soccer championships will continue to broadcast live and exclusive in Latin America through FOX Sports, FOX Sports 2, the network\u2019s Premium and HD versions, and its digital platform, FOX Play. FOX Sports will distribute the rights outside Latin America.<\/p>\n
Besides those tournaments, FOX Sports becomes the official broadcaster of four additional games: Copa Libertadores U-20, Women\u2019s Copa Libertadores, Futsal Copa Libertadores and Beach Soccer Copa Libertadores.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re very pleased to have expanded our media partnership with CONMEBOL for the broadcasting rights to the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Sudamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana, the most prestigious soccer tournaments in Latin America,\u201d said Hernan L\u00f3pez, the president of FOX International Channels. \u201cWe will continue to focus our efforts in producing the matches in the highest quality possible, as we have been doing for several years now, making them available to all pay-TV subscribers in Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCONMEBOL\u2019s Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana\u2014along with CONCACAF\u2019s Champions League\u2014are undoubtedly the Latin American club soccer tournaments more widely distributed in the region, reaching more than 60 million households across Latin America through our sports portfolio and FOX Play,\u201d said Carlos Martinez, the president of FOX International Channels Latin America. \u201cWe are proud to have been chosen to broadcast these championships. We share CONMEBOL\u2019s long-term vision and reinforce our commitment to continue bringing them to practically every pay-TV household in the region, a reach very difficult to be surpassed by any other network.\u201d<\/p>\n
CONMEBOL\u2019s president, Juan Angel Napout, added: \u201cCONMEBOL is pleased to be able to deliver to the clubs greater economic value as a result of our expanded relationship with FOX. The Copas have an incredible history. The passion and the stories cannot be invented. They are fantastic things. The Libertadores is irreplaceable, and the Sudamericana is getting stronger every year. We have been working hard to make the tournaments even more exciting, putting in place club rankings based on ten years\u2019 performance. At the same time, we will now be able to give the clubs greater value for their participation. Our agreement with Fox will promote the development of clubs’ tournaments for women, under 20s, futsal and beach soccer. All of these efforts go hand in hand with the governance reforms that we in the Executive Committee are committed to. These measures will guarantee transparency and accountability, for the benefit of all of CONMEBOL\u2019s member associations and the clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BUENOS AIRES: Through an agreement with CONMEBOL, FOX Sports will maintain exclusive cross-platform broadcasting rights for the Copa Libertadores, the Copa Sudamerica and the Recopa Sudamericana until 2018. The three major soccer championships will continue to broadcast live and exclusive in Latin America through FOX Sports, FOX Sports 2, the network\u2019s Premium and HD versions, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[123,120,121,119,122],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-conmebol","tag-copa-libertadores","tag-copa-sudamerica","tag-fox-sports","tag-recopa-sudamericana"],"yoast_head":"\n